Vic Department of Transport
Thousands of kilometres of Victorian roads are safer and more reliable thanks to a massive seasonal road maintenance blitz.
Since September 2020, crews throughout Victoria have worked tirelessly to rebuild, repair, and resurface more than 2,430 kilometres of the road network, exceeding pre-blitz estimates and delivering more reliable journeys for local drivers, tourists, and freight operators.
On top of this, maintenance crews filled more than 230,000 potholes, repaired, or replaced 41,000 signs and mowed more than 50,000 kilometres of roadside grass, as well as spending more than 5,000 hours responding to emergency callouts across the state.
Across metropolitan Melbourne, works delivered on busy arterial routes include the Western Freeway, Mickleham Road, Frankston-Flinders Road and Old Dandenong Road.
Heatherton the ‘best location’ for stabling
THE state government has defended a proposal to put train stabling on the former Delta landfill site in Heatherton.
Transport infrastructure minister Jacinta Allan says that the Heatherton site is “the best location for the stabling of Suburban Rail Loop trains. It minimises the compulsory acquisition of homes, businesses and parkland.”
“The Suburban Rail Loop will provide new transport connections, slash travel times and create jobs for residents of Kingston,” Ms Allan said. “The government will work closely with Kingston Council and residents to ensure that the Suburban Rail Loop project enables the chain of parks project to be delivered.”
Halfway point for freeway progress
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THE state government promises that 13,000 trucks will be removed from local roads after the construction of the Mordialloc Freeway.
The project to connect the Mornington Peninsula Freeway and the Dingley Bypass has now passed the halfway point of construction. It is projected to be completed within a year.
In an update released last week, the state government promised that the new road would remove up to 13,000 trucks from local roads and improve travel times by up to ten minutes in peak hours.
Mordialloc MP Tim Richardson said “in a difficult year we’ve seen incredible progress on the Mordi Freeway. This project supports local jobs, will get people home to their families safer and sooner. We’re getting it done.”